This article is about the 1941 film. For the 1928 film, see Buck Privates (1928 film). For the sequel to the film, see Buck Privates Come Home.
Buck Privates
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Arthur Lubin
Written by
Arthur T. Horman
Produced by
Alex Gottlieb
Starring
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Lee Bowman The Andrews Sisters
Cinematography
Milton R. Krasner
Edited by
Philip Cahn
Music by
Charles Previn
Production company
Universal Pictures
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
January 31, 1941 (1941-01-31)
Running time
84 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$245,000[1][2]
Box office
$4,000,000 (USA)[1]
Buck Privates is a 1941 American musical military comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bona fide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war (In the Navy and Keep 'Em Flying). A sequel to this movie, Buck Privates Come Home, was released in 1947. Buck Privates is one of three Abbott and Costello films featuring The Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract to Universal Pictures at the time.
Abbott and Costello performed a one-hour radio adaptation of the film on the Lux Radio Theatre on October 13, 1941.[3]
^ abBob Furmanek & Ron Palumbo, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, Perigree Books 1991 p 42-48
^Scheuer, Philip K. (May 4, 1941). "Town Called HOLLYWOOD". Los Angeles Times. p. C3.
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